Jonathon Harker15 May, 2020 A potential 100km of pop-up bike lanes will be coming to Liverpool thanks to a £2 million package green lit by Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson. The city has reviewed traffic movements in the city and how best to support people going back to work as the government begins to slowly […]

Barking, Havering & Redbridge Hospitals ask local authorities for StreetSpace Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals have appealed local authorities to act quickly on creating space for active travel. FULL STORY St Bartholomew’s asks for StreetSpace in Islington St Bartholomew’s has asked Islington Council to consider creating low traffic neighbourhoods and emergency bike lanes to

Janette Sadik-Khan@JSadikKhan 8m Reopen streets, reopen cities. London announces large-scale car-free zones, joining a growing number of cities taking action to prevent a traffic crisis from breaking out amid the ongoing health and economic crises. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/m link to original article

By Justin Rowlatt Chief Environment correspondent 5 hours ago Barriers closed a stretch of Deansgate, Manchester’s main thoroughfare, to motor vehicles on Saturday. Elsewhere in the city, new pedestrian walkways and pop-up bike lanes have appeared. It is part of a nationwide effort to create more space for social distancing as the country gradually begins

Carlton Reid11:43am EDT |1,525 views|May 16, 2020, Celebrity news reporter Adam Boulton and controversial actor Laurence Fox are not fans of London’s plan to ban cars on some its busiest roads as the coronavirus lockdown is eased. “Anyone who is in central London knows that bike riders are irresponsible and constantly break the laws on

By SimonM on 2 days ago Giving more road space to cycling and walking is no longer a ‘nice to have’ option for councils – it is an instruction from the Department for Transport. The instruction has been sent to all councils in new statutory guidance: Traffic Management Act 2004: network management in response to

By LCC on 4 days ago Traffic justice: A guest blog by Victoria Lebrec Victoria Lebrec is London Traffic Justice Campaigner at RoadPeace. She lost a leg in a collision with a lorry when riding her cycle. LCC works closely with RoadPeace on traffic justice The issue of traffic justice is not one any cyclist

By Simon M on 5 days ago UPDATE 14/05/20: Over the last few days, the media has carried images of crammed tube and bus routes with social distancing clearly failing. TfL continues to say that it will ramp up frequency of service, but that overall capacity will not improve above 20%, more likely lower. Given

by LAURA LAKER THU, MAR 12, 2020 14:44 What did we get for cycling in the budget? Well, according to Cycling UK, nothing new, but these items were in there: £36m for an “iconic new Central Park Bridge in Plymouth, £79m for new cycleways in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole” £1bn from the Transforming Cities Fund,

Laura LakerMon 11 May 2020 15.13 BST Saturday’s announcement of extra funds for walking and cycling was a rare example of political focus on sustainable travel. Could the investment announced by the transport minister, Grant Shapps, help usher in what Boris Johnson pledged a week earlier: a ‘golden age for cycling’?. The measures announced at